PGA DFS Optimizer Guide

What is the BluecollarDFS PGA optimizer?

It's a web tool that builds the highest-projected PGA daily fantasy lineups for DraftKings, FanDuel and Yahoo tournaments, using our own weekly golf projections and each site's salary cap. The PGA optimizer is part of Premium ($17.99 per month as of October 2026), which also covers NBA, MLB and NFL.

Why use BluecollarDFS instead of a bigger PGA DFS tool?

It depends on how you play. BluecollarDFS is built around projections: each sport has its own model, refined by hand over years of playing DFS ourselves and updated through the day as news breaks, and we use them in our own lineups. The optimizer is deliberately simple, with the settings that change your lineups and nothing to get lost in. It's free for basic builds, and Premium is $17.99 per month for every sport (as of October 2026).

If you want lineup simulations, ownership modeling and hundreds of fine-grained rules, the larger subscription tools offer more, at several times the price. If you want dozens of research dashboards, other sites go wider. We'd rather get the projections right.

How do I build PGA DFS lineups with the optimizer?

• Choose your site (DraftKings, FanDuel or Yahoo) and the slate you're entering. The player pool loads with salaries, positions and our projections.
• Review the player table. Filter by position, search by name, and sort by salary or projection.
• Lock players you want in every lineup and ban players you want to fade.
• Adjust settings if you need them, pick how many lineups to build, and press BUILD.
• Review the results on the Lineups tab.

Premium builds 6, 10, 20, 50 or 150 lineups per run.

How do I lock or ban a golfer?

Click the lock icon next to a golfer to force them into every lineup, or the ban icon to keep them out of every lineup. Click again to clear it. The optimizer keeps a list of everyone you've locked or banned, so you can review your choices before building.

Locks and bans are the fastest way to add your own read to the math: lock the golfers your research says you can't fade, ban the ones you don't trust, and let the optimizer fill the rest.

What matters most in PGA DFS?

Getting all six golfers through the cut. A golfer who misses the cut scores nothing on the weekend, which almost always knocks a lineup out of contention. Our projections weigh each golfer's chance of making the cut heavily, so the optimizer leans toward golfers likely to play all four rounds.

Is there stacking in golf DFS?

No. One golfer's score doesn't depend on another's, so there are no stacking rules. The optimizer simply picks the six golfers with the most projected points for their salaries, within your locks, bans and exposure limits.

What does Lineup Cost Max do?

Lineup Cost Max caps the total salary the optimizer may spend on a lineup. It defaults to the full salary cap. Lowering it forces lineups that leave salary unused, which can make tournament lineups less common in large fields. It's free and applies to classic slates.

How does Max Player Exposure work?Premium

Max Player Exposure caps the share of your lineups any single golfer can appear in. It starts at 100, meaning no limit. Set it to 50 and no golfer appears in more than half of the lineups you build.

Golf is high-variance, so a cap of 30 to 40 on any one golfer is a common way to limit the damage from a single missed cut.

What does Minimum Unique Players do?Premium

Minimum Unique Players sets how different each lineup must be from every other lineup in the same build, from 1 to 5 players. At 1, lineups only need to differ by one player. At 3, every pair of lineups differs by at least three. Higher values give you a more diverse set of lineups for multi-entry tournaments, at the cost of some projected points. It applies to classic slates.

How do I upload my lineups to DraftKings, FanDuel or Yahoo?Premium

On the Lineups tab, click Export Lineups. You get a CSV file named after your site (for example DraftKings-lineups.csv) with players in the site's roster order, ready for the site's bulk upload or edit page.

You can also download the projections themselves as a CSV (player name and projection) with the download icon above the player table, to use in your own spreadsheets or tools.

How often do the golf projections update?

Through each tournament week, as the field is finalized, tee times are set and conditions become clearer. Read more about how our projections are built.